About Huaqiao University

    The University has a board of trustees with the president shouldering overall responsibility. Mr. Liao Chengzhi, the late Vice Chairman of NPC Standing Committee served as the first president. The current president is Prof. Wu Chengye, member of CPPCC and advisor for PhD candidates. The board of trustees is made up of overseas Chinese, Hong Kong and Macao compatriots, returned overseas Chinese, celebrities from all walks and government leaders at all levels. Based on the school policy of “orienting to overseas, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and the economic zones in the west bank of the Straits”, the original purpose of founding the University is “serving the overseas Chinese and spreading the Chinese culture”, and the idea of “Cultivating students who thoroughly understand China and the world, and are with both lofty virtue and high-level professional competence”. With a unique feature of “one school with two types of students, who are educated according to their aptitude”, Huaqiao University has a campus culture of “one dominating traditional culture mixed with others", and a campus spirit of “Toleration is the best policy. Be affable but not adulatory”.

Colleges and Departments:

    The University consists of 19 colleges or departments of science, engineering, economics, management, law, liberal arts, philosophy, and history, offering 9 PH.D programs, 64 masters programs, 6 engineering masters programs, 52 undergraduate programs, with 11 provincial or ministerial key disciplines.

Education：

    Since the founding of the university 45 years ago, the University has graduated more than 76,000 students, among them over 36,000 are from overseas. The University has now 24,000 full-time on-campus students, including 3,000 overseas students from 29 countries and regions such as Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Japan, America, Argentina, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Quality-oriented education of the students has proved a great success. In the recent three national “Challenge Cup” college student contests of extracurricular academic, scientific and technological works, the University has won 10 prizes, and the group scores were in the 13th, 16th, and 10th places respectively, which ranked the first among the universities and colleges in Fujian province. The men’s basketball team of the University won the national championship in the 2nd, 5th and 7th and runner-up in the 4th CUBA (China University Basketball Association) tournaments.

Faculty ：

    The University has more than 1,700 faculty members, among whom over 500 hold senior professional titles. Among the 900 full time teachers, 400 are professors and associate professors, over 141 hold PhD degrees and 38 enjoy special government allowance.
Infrastructure：
    The campus covers an area of 740,000 square meters with a total floor space of 550,000 square meters. The new campus in Xiamen covering 1,320,000m2 is under construction. The University is well equipped with advanced facilities for teaching and scientific research. The library has a total collection of 2,040,000 volumes of 1,030,000 titles.

Scientific Research：

    The University attaches great importance to basic research and application, and has made significant achievements. According to incomplete statistics, there were over 100 scientific research projects merely from 2003 to 2004 with a total financial aid of over 10 million Yuan. In 2003, the number of scientific and technological papers retrievable in “SCI” and “EI” ranked 95th and 66th among the universities and colleges in China, and papers cited by international journals ranked 81st. The Journal of Huaqiao University (natural sciences) was one of the key national Chinese journals. The Journal (Philosophy and social sciences) was listed in “ Top 100 national university journals of social sciences” twice (in 1999 and 2002) and elected into the key Chinese journals of humanities and social sciences.

International Exchange and Cooperation：

    Huaqiao University is outward-looking and has devoted much attention to interuniversity cooperation. The University has already established friendly ties with more than 30 universities and colleges in the United States, Japan, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and the regions of Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. Some internationally famous scholars such as Chen Ning Yang, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Daniel McFadden, Nobel Laureate in Economics, have been conferred honorary professorship by the University.

Prospects：

    With the central tasks of developing Chinese language and culture, constructing Xiamen campus, and building a harmonious teaching-research-oriented university, Huaqiao University is now striving to build itself into an advanced comprehensive institution of higher learning for overseas Chinese, having an advantage in engineering disciplines and making a feature of Chinese language and culture education, and to enjoy high prestige of a first-rate overseas Chinese university both at home and abroad.